Research papers

Utilizing the Alarm Taxonomy and Classification System (ATACS) to Redesign Landing Gear Warnings

Alarms have been in use for many decades, yet there still needs to be more clarity about what makes a good alarm. Vendors and government agencies have developed several useful handbooks describing the Do’s and Don’ts of …

Minified Augmented Reality as a Terrestrial Analog for G-Transitions Effects in Lunar and Interplanetary Spaceflight

Brief periods of extreme gravitational transition are anticipated during interplanetary spaceflight, including transitions between microgravity, hypogravity, and hypergravity.

HIF-1 ACTIVATION AND INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES TO HYPOXIA

Acute hypoxia is a significant physiological danger during high-altitude flying and military aircraft missions. The human brain requires a constant supply of oxygen to function properly, and is susceptible to settings wi…

Factors Affecting Passengers’ Acceptance of Single Pilot Operations: A Qualitative Study conducted in Greece

Single Pilot Operations (SPO) have drawn significant attention during the last years, as a result of the increased dual flight crew expenses, and as a remedy to the impending pilot shortage which is estimated to manifest…

Aircraft Damage Classification by using Machine Learning Methods

Safety is the most significant factor that affected incidents (non-fatal) and accidents (fatal) in civil aviation history related to scheduled flights.

Enhancing Trajectory-Based Operations for UAVs through Hexagonal Grid Indexing: A Step towards 4D Integration of UTM and ATM

Aviation is expected to face a surge in the number of manned aircraft and drones in the coming years, making it necessary to integrate Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) into Air Traffic Management (ATM) t…

Evaluating the Effects of Safety Management Systems (SMS) on Safety Culture Factors in Collegiate Aviation Operations: A Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) Approach

Implementing Safety Management Systems (SMS) is currently voluntary for collegiate aviation operations in the U.S. Some extant studies have advocated using Safety Management Systems (SMS) as a proactive tool to continuou…

Historical Research and the case for a Fifth Component of SMS

Abstract Three tragic events from aviation history were examined using a Historical Research and Case Study Method. The events explored were the disasters of the Airship R101 (1930), the Space Shuttle Challenger (1986) a…

ADS-B Communication Interference in Air Traffic Management

Automated Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) provides position and state information about aircraft and is becoming an essential component in the global air traffic management system.

Single Pilot Operations and Public Acceptance: A Mixed Methods Study conducted in Greece

The airline industry is moving towards Single Pilot Operations (SPO), as a result of the increased training and salary cost of pilots, and also as a remedy to the impending pilot shortage which is estimated to manifest i…

Accuracy Assessment of the eBee Using RTK and PPK Corrections Methods as a Function of Distance to a GNSS Base Station

The use of unmanned aircraft systems to collect data for photogrammetry models has grown significantly in recent years. The accuracy of a photogrammetric model can depend on image georeferencing.

Clinical Education Innovation Enabled by XR Space Medicine Technology

Head-mounted extended reality (XR) has emerged as a powerful tool in medical education for simulation of clinical and surgical situations.

Cabin crew members’ silence: A qualitative study with cabin attendants

Silence among flight crews has been one of the significant causes of aviation incidents and/or accidents. This study aims to explore why flight attendants remain silent during flights and/or do not report errors after th…

An Analysis of Department of the Air Force Bird Strikes and Precipitation

This study explored the relationship between precipitation, the amount of time between precipitation events, bird strike risk, and the agricultural zone related to Department of the Air Force (DAF) aircraft operations.

Future Directions of Space Education

The future of space operations graduate education is reliant on industry leaders’ contributions to help forecast the needs of the industry.

Enhancing Pilot Training Through Virtual Reality: Recognizing and Mitigating Aviation Visual and Vestibular Illusions

Aviation illusions, arising from sensory misinterpretations, can lead to critical pilot errors. The study aims to evaluate VR training's efficacy in recognizing and managing these illusions.

Learning from Past in the Commercial Air Transport Industry: A Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Literature Review in the Safety Management Framework

In the commercial air transport industry, numerous accidents have occurred because stakeholders have failed to learn lessons from the past.

Using the best - worst scale to assess the relative impact of these behaviors on other passengers on the same flight: The disruptive passenger behavior

A method called the best-worst scaling method is proposed to overcome these problems by asking respondents to make tradeoffs among the variables being assessed.

Statistical Analysis to Evaluate the Impact of Quality Control and Quality Assurance on the Aircraft Maintenance Turnaround Time

The turnover time for aircraft maintenance is crucial for the operational efficiency and profitability of airlines. Quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) procedures play a role in assuring the safe and reliable…

Public Opinion Concerning the Siting of Vertiports

This study sought a better understanding of public opinion about the siting of vertiports to support Advanced Air Mobility (AAM). An online survey was used to collect the necessary data.

Airport Ground Access Choice Between Transportation Network Companies and Parking: A Case Study of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

The segment between home and airports is an essential component in all air transportation trips. Travelers normally have different ground access options to commence their journeys.

Business Process Architecture for the Integration of Artificial Intelligence at Aerospace Organizations

Artificial intelligence's capability is rapidly increasing, and the aerospace industry must capitalize on this computing revolution. The current study conducts an integrative literature review to identify current and pot…

An Analysis of Federal Aviation Administration Enforcement Actions Against sUAS Operators

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has promulgated regulations to govern the commercial operation of small uncrewed aircraft systems (sUAS).

Stochastic Optimization to Reduce Aircraft Taxi-in Time at IGIA, New Delhi

Since there is an uncertainty in the arrival times of flights, pre-scheduled allocation of runways and stands and the subsequent first-come-first-served treatment results in a sub-optimal allocation of runways and stands…

Safety and reliability in aviation – A systematic scoping review of normal accident theory, high-reliability theory, and resilience engineering in aviation

A pragmatic approach to the limitations of safety management systems in aviation

Team adaptation and safety in aviation

Managing fatigue in aviation maintenance while promoting a human factors safety reporting system; a strategic approach to aviation safety

The potential rise of fatigue in commercial aviation maintenance due to Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) personnel shortages supports a Human Factors (HF) Fatigue Risk Management (FRM) System be introduced in all ma…

Human reliability analysis in aviation accidents: A review

In the civil aviation sector, human factors is the primary cause of many safety incidents. Aircraft flying, maintenance, and operations are the major tasks that are heavily dependent on professionals; thus, they are subj…

Short-haul fatigue: A focus group study

Researchers from NASA Ames Research Center, together with research scientists from CAMI, are preparing to conduct a study to evaluate fatigue during short-haul operations.

Digital Twin-Enabled Domain Adaptation for Zero-Touch UAV Networks: Survey and Challenges

In existing wireless networks, the control programs have been designed manually and for certain predefined scenarios. This process is complicated and error-prone, and the resulting control programs are not resilient to d…

Observer-based Controller for VTOL-UAVs Tracking using Direct Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation Measurements

This paper proposes a novel observer-based controller for Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) designed to directly receive measurements from a Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation System (VA-IN…

Evaluation of the effectiveness of a training programme for nurses regarding augmentative and alternative communication with intubated patients using Kirkpatrick's model: A pilot study

Communicating with conscious intubated patients who are unable to communicate verbally is one of the challenges faced by intensive care unit (ICU) nurses.

Dynamics of capillary effects in spin conversion of water isomers

This work explores the dynamics of capillary effects in pure H2O excited by hydrodynamic cavitation, which has been reported to introduce a non-equilibrium state of para- and ortho- isomers of water.

Research on Aviation Safety Prediction Based on Variable Selection and LSTM

Accurate prediction of aviation safety levels is significant for the efficient early warning and prevention of incidents. However, the causal mechanism and temporal character of aviation accidents are complex and not ful…

Standoff Tracking Using DNN-Based MPC with Implementation on FPGA

This work studies the standoff tracking problem to drive an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to slide on a desired circle over a moving target at a constant height.

Towards Cooperative Flight Control Using Visual-Attention

The cooperation of a human pilot with an autonomous agent during flight control realizes parallel autonomy. We propose an air-guardian system that facilitates cooperation between a pilot with eye tracking and a parallel …

A robust dynamic mode decomposition methodology for an airfoil undergoing transonic shock buffet

Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is a data-driven technique widely used to analyze and model fluid problems including transonic buffet flows.

XR in Aviation Training: Insight from Academia, Industry, and Non-Profit Institutions

The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on education and training. Institutions that relied heavily on face-to-face instruction suddenly needed alternative modalities to keep students on course, forcing educators and…

From a Chicken Farm to Air Taxis: The Unresolved Question Facing Urban and Advanced Air Mobility

The advent of urban air mobility (UAM) and advanced air mobility (AAM) technology are creating a myriad of regulatory challenges that must be addressed if this technology is to be successfully integrated to the National …

Evaluating System Usability, Workload Suitability, and User Experience of Game-Based Virtual Reality in Spaceflight Education and Training

Game-based instruction and immersive virtual reality are enhanced pedagogical methods beneficial in training environments involving complex disciplines, ranging from medical applications to construction engineering techn…

Creating the Next Generation of Aviation Professionals: Creating Diversity in the Next Generation

Covid-19, mandatory retirement age, the 1500 Hour ATP rule and lack of future aviation professionals has lead to a global industry crisis.

A Robust Data-Driven Model for Flapping Aerodynamics under different hovering kinematics

Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles (FWMAV) are highly manoeuvrable, bio-inspired drones that can assist in surveys and rescue missions. Flapping wings generate various unsteady lift enhancement mechanisms challenging the d…

Load Mitigation and Power Tracking Control for Multi-Rotor Turbines

A model-based feasible control strategy for multi-rotor systems is presented, pursuing two control objectives simultaneously: Mechanical loads on the main tower are to be mitigated, and an externally determined power cha…

Landslide Likelihood Prediction using Machine Learning Algorithms

The supply of electricity via power plants is criticalto the operation of many critical infrastructure systems in mod-ern society. Natural hazards can disrupt the power supply, causepower outages that can halt economic g…

Olfactory Training Impacts Olfactory Dysfunction Induced by COVID-19: A Pilot Study

Introduction: Olfactory dysfunction is one of the main symptoms of COVID-19 and may last beyond resolution of the infection. The most promising intervention for post-viral olfactory dysfunction is olfactory training (OT)…

How dirt cones form on glaciers: field observation, laboratory experiments and modeling

Dirt cones are meter-scale structures encountered at the surface of glaciers, which consist of ice cones covered by a thin layer of ashes, sand or gravel, and which form naturally from an initial patch of debris.

Hybrid stability augmentation control of multi-rotor UAV in confined space based on adaptive backstepping control

This paper applies the UAV to the inspection of water diversion pipelines in hydropower stations. The diversion pipeline is an enclosed space, so the airflow disturbance caused by the rotation of the UAV blades and the s…

Repeatable Method for Conducting Chamber Studies of Aerosolized Lunar Simulant

The Artemis Mission goal of returning humans to the Moon requires new solutions to engineering problems posed by the extremely harsh environment of the lunar surface.

Mach and Reynolds Number Effects on Transonic Buffet on the XRF-1 Transport Aircraft Wing at Flight Reynolds Number

This work provides an overview of aerodynamic data acquired in the European Transonic Windtunnel using an XRF-1 transport aircraft configuration both at cruise conditions and at the edges of the flight envelope.